The Evening Blues - 2-24-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 02/24/2016 - 1:48pm
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features boogie woogie piano player Meade "Lux" Lewis. Enjoy!
Meade Lux Lewis - Boogie Woogie
Hellraisers Journal: Haywood, Moyer, & Pettibone Held on Murderers' Row at Idaho Penitentiary
Submitted by JayRaye on Wed, 02/24/2016 - 12:54pmThrough the window that faced the rear wall I could see
what I afterward learned was the death-house,
where the condemned were hanged.
-Big Bill Haywood
what I afterward learned was the death-house,
where the condemned were hanged.
-Big Bill Haywood
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Saturday February 24, 1906
Boise, Idaho - More Arrest Made in Steunenberg Case, Men Held in Idaho State Pen
From the Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times of February 21, 1906:
MORE ARRESTS IN BOISE CASE
-----OREGON GOVERNOR GRANTS REQUISITION PAPERS FOR
TWO MORE ALLEGED ACCOMPLICTS
IN STEUNENBERG CASE.
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SALEM, Oregon, Feb. 20.-Gov. Chamberlain has granted requisition papers for the arrest and return to Idaho of J. L. Simpkins and Steve Adams, wanted as accomplices in the murder of Former Gov. Frank Steunenberg of Idaho. Simpkins is believed to be in this state. Adams is under arrest at Baker City.
-----BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 20.-It has been arranged that Moyer, Haywood, Pettibone and Steve Adams, held here on a charge of murdering Former Gov. Frank Steunenberg, shall be taken to Caldwell tomorrow morning and given a preliminary hearing. A special grand jury is to be called to be in readiness to meet any emergency, such as habeas corpus proceedings, etc.
Steve Adams was arrested at Haines, Oregon, yesterday. He was in Caldwell just before the murder and was seen with Orchard walking along the railway track in the vicinity of the Steunenberg home. Vincent St. John, who was arrested at Wallace, it is thought will arrive in Caldwell tomorrow morning, making five to be given a preliminary hearing. Adjutant General Bulackley [Bulkeley] Wells of Colorado has remained over to testify at the preliminary hearing....
Open Thread - Wed. February 24, 2016 - Fenholloway River Edition
Submitted by gulfgal98 on Wed, 02/24/2016 - 7:00amGood Morning, 99%'ers! Today's Open Thread is a short vignette (thank you, Smiley). Because this is an Open Thread, please feel free to post whatever you wish.
Maya Young
Submitted by Robyn on Tue, 02/23/2016 - 2:16pm
Maya's Facebook page said that she was originally from Vineland, NJ and attended Buena Regional High School in Atlantic County. But by 2012 the 25-year-old was living in Philadelphia.
Close friends describe her as a 'truly a funny girl who was mad REAL and LOYAL.
The Evening Blues - 2-23-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 02/23/2016 - 1:38pm
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features boogie and blues piano player, Memphis Slim. Enjoy!
Memphis Slim - Born With The Blues
Hellraisers Journal: The Only Convictions from Colorado Mine Wars of 1903-04: Mine Owners Gunthugs
Submitted by JayRaye on Tue, 02/23/2016 - 12:54pmThe intent is to hang the officials of the Western Federation of Miners
if any courts can be gotten together subservient enough
to do the dastardly deed.
-Montana News
if any courts can be gotten together subservient enough
to do the dastardly deed.
-Montana News
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Friday February 23, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: Report on Mine Owners' Hired Gunthugs
The Appeal of February 17th offers this account of the results of the "law and order" campaign made by the Mine Owners' Association and the prominent gentlemen who supported that organization in its endeavors to make criminals of the metal miners of Colorado during the recent strikes in that state:
NO COLORADO MINERS CONVICTED.
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Readers of the APPEAL will remember that this paper repeatedly called attention to the fact that the mine owners of Colorado during the labor war is that state in 1904 employed thugs and criminals to carry out their nefarious ends. Since that time five prominent "law and order" gentlemen who fought under the flag of the Mine Owners' association and who were paid by the mine operators and railroads, have been sentenced to the penitentiary and are now serving behind the bars for various crimes. Three more of the delectable gang are in the toils of the law with chances good for their being sent to join their companions.
It is also a significant fact that with all the charges that have been made against the members of the Western Federation of Miners, not a single conviction has been made. And, mind you, the law is in the hands of the mine operators and they have been moving heaven and earth to convict some member of the miners' organization. These are facts which show on which side of the fence the real criminals operated and who were in reality the law-abiding citizens of Colorado. Gradually the inside history of that momentous struggle is being written, and when all the truth is known there will be disclosed the mangled reputations of a number of highly respected politicians.
Til Tuesday 02/23/16
Submitted by hecate on Tue, 02/23/2016 - 6:34amHave you ever noticed that economic charts and graphs resemble webs spun by spiders who are drug victims?
Something else one cannot help but notice: men do not know how to dress themselves.
States that are already in recession
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 2:04pmThe global energy bust has largely gone unnoticed by the American public, but it means more than just low gas prices.
In energy producing states it means recession.
Just go over to Orange and rec New Minas' diary
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 1:32pmThe most dangerous year
Submitted by Robyn on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 1:21pmA new report from the Human Rights Campaign reveals that 44 bills targeting transgender people have been brought forward across 16 states. Twenty-three of those bills target transgender children.
The onslaught compares to the twenty-one anti-transgender bills which were filed last year.
